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The Citizen Science data and images from the 12 beach cleaning campaigns that were performed in Crete by HCMR for the period May 2022 – May 2023 were submitted by ETT in the EMODnet database. The plastic litter data were organised according to the EMODnet Thematic Lot...

Join us on April 9th at 11:30 CEST for an insightful event taking place both in-person at the Auditorium of the Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona and online. Organized by Nautilos in collaboration with experts from EurOcean, the Institute of Information Science...

NIVA has used the Nautilos Citizen Science activities on microplastics as an example during the first of a three-workshop series of National workshops for the Norwegian Research Council for the ‘Reflab’ project. The use of the Nautilos smartphone scanner on cruise...

Silvia Merlino from CNR carried out three marine litter citizen science campaigns on 25 January, 12 March and 14 March 2024 (beach cleaning and cataloguing) in the framework of the “Adopt a Dune” project. The campaigns were also granted by the “#IosonoAmbiente”...

Silvia Merlino from CNR participated as an invited speaker in the EU- ERASMUS PLUS project of Fossati-Da Passano high school of La Spezia, on 14 March 2024, presenting some of the citizen science activities currently performed, as the “smart-drifters project” and...

Dr Giuseppe Suaria from CNR-ISMAR gave an invited keynote presentation during the webinar ”Microplastics for breakfast: 10 years of plastic pollution research: main findings and future perspectives”, which was organized by the Slovenian Association of Microplastic...

  We're thrilled to invite early career scientists and marine technicians to join Nautilos Summer School, a three-day course set against the stunning backdrop of HCMR Facilities in Crete, Greece. When: April 17-19, 2024 Where: HCMR Facilities, Crete, Greece...

IMBBC-HCMR participated in the 2nd innovation exhibition INNODAYS that took place in Heraklion (Crete, Greece) from 24 to 26 of November 2023 and presented the Citizen Science Activities of NAUTILOS. The visitors and young kids had the opportunity to participate in a...

The prestigious CNR Award for Citizen Science: Guglielmo Marconi Library has been awarded to the remarkable SeaCleaner initiative, led by Silvia Merlino, a researcher at the Marine Sciences Institute of CNR in Lerici (La Spezia) and one of the researchers of the...

CNR-ISMAR participated to the Remote Sensing for Marine Litter Workshop 2023 at ESA-ESTEC, Netherlands from 16 to 17 October 2023. The workshop, held under the overarching theme of “Today’s Possibilities, Tomorrow’s Innovation: State of the art, challenges, and future...